CFP Extension: TRANSIT Vol. 12.2 Landscapes of Migration
Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World, Vol. 12.2 Landscapes of Migration
Recent Discussions
CONF: Jewish-Polish-German realms of memory. A triple neighbourhood.
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Conference
Date:
September 4, 2019 to September 5, 2019
Re: QUERY: Milag Nord & Convoy PQ17
Dear Mrs. Livecchia,
There are documents on guard units in the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in Freiburg im Breisgau, both for the German army and the Marlag (Marinekriegsgefangenenlager), which might have been staffed by navy personnel. These documents are very fragmentary, however.
QUERY: Milag Nord & Convoy PQ17
I am looking for the records from the Kriegsmarine POW camp, Milag Nord. My father was a US Navy gunner assigned to the SS Carlton, part of the PQ17 Murmansk run. PQ17 was specifically known as the suicide convoy as only 11 of 35 ships made the final destination after the amed escorts were orded by the British First Sea Lord, Dudley Pound, to abandon the convoy. His ship was sunk on 5 July 1942, and he spent 33 months at Milag Nord. I do have a picture of the ship sinking. The U-boat that fired the torpedoes, surfaced, snapped a picture, then approached the lifeboats, taking another pi
CFP: Reminder: Edited Volume: Transverse Disciplines; abstract deadline August 15, 2019
Transverse Disciplines:
Working across and beyond Academic Communities
Edited by: Simone Pfleger (University of Alberta) and Carrie Smith (University of Alberta)
FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor of History (History of Modern Germany), University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Home Office Notices (Jobs, Reviews)
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Wisconsin, United States
ANN: H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 5 August 2019 - 12 August 2019
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EUROPEAN HISTORY / STUDIES
CFP: Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable
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Call for Papers
Date:
April 3, 2020 to April 4, 2020
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Dr. Thorsten Loch
Loch on Goldberg, 'From Disarmament to Rearmament: The Reversal of US Policy toward West Germany, 1946–1955'
Sheldon Aaron Goldberg. From Disarmament to Rearmament: The Reversal of US Policy toward West Germany, 1946–1955. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2300-4.
Reviewed by Dr. Thorsten Loch (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr) Published on H-German (June, 2019) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Richard Weikart
Weikart on Stoltzfus, 'Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany'
Nathan Stoltzfus. Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 416 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21750-6.
Reviewed by Richard Weikart (California State University, Stanislaus) Published on H-German (May, 2019) Commissioned by David Harrisville (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Reviewer:
Nathan Stoltzfus
Stoltzfus on Pine, 'Life and Times in Nazi Germany'
Lisa Pine, ed. Life and Times in Nazi Germany. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. 328 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-1792-7.
Reviewed by Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University) Published on H-German (October, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50613
Reviewer:
Laura J. Hilton
Hilton on Waxman, 'Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History'
Zoë Waxman. Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 181 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-960868-3.
Reviewed by Laura J. Hilton (Muskingum University) Published on H-German (October, 2018) Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Reviewer:
Jan-Henrik Meyer
Meyer on Tompkins, 'Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany'
Andrew S. Tompkins. Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. XV, 265 S. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-877905-6; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-182620-7.
Reviewed by Jan-Henrik Meyer Published on H-German (September, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Manuel Schramm
Schramm on Berghoff and Logemann and Römer, 'The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective'
Hartmut Berghoff, Jan L. Logemann, Felix Römer, eds. The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective. London: Oxford University Press, 2017. ix + 371 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-878426-5.
Reviewed by Manuel Schramm (Technische Universität Chemnitz) Published on H-German (August, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Robbie Aitken
Aitken on Lennox, 'Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture'
Sara Lennox. Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. 376 pp. $31.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-231-7.
Reviewed by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center) Published on H-German (April, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Jeff Rutherford
Rutherford on Böhler and Gerwarth, 'The Waffen-SS: A European History'
Jochen Böhler, Robert Gerwarth, eds. The Waffen-SS: A European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xviii + 372 pp. Illustrations. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-879055-6.
Reviewed by Jeff Rutherford (Wheeling Jesuit University) Published on H-German (March, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski
Rombeck-Jaschinski on Ashton, 'The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871'
Bodie A. Ashton. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 240 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-00007-0.
Reviewed by Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski (Universität Stuttgart) Published on H-German (February, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
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Reviewer:
Mark Clark
Clark on Strote, 'Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany'
Noah Benezra Strote. Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xii + 357 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21905-0.
Reviewed by Mark Clark (University of Virginia-Wise) Published on H-German (February, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville